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package org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.builder;

import java.util.List;

import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.FieldType;
import org.elasticsearch.hadoop.serialization.Parser;


/**
 * Translates a JSON field to an actual object. Implementations should only handle the conversion and not influence the parser outside the conversion.
 */
public interface ValueReader {

    Object readValue(Parser parser, String value, FieldType esType);

    Object createMap();

    void addToMap(Object map, Object key, Object value);

    Object wrapString(String value);

    Object createArray(FieldType type);

    Object addToArray(Object array, List<Object> values);

    void beginField(String fieldName);

    void endField(String fieldName);
}
